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Only slightly; Bitcoin had awareness on Less Wrong when it was still fairly obscure, IIRC, but I have heard it discussed recently by people offline and far removed from LW (a coworker, “random” people on the street).
The reporter began with the very questionable assumption that Satoshi Nakamoto was his real name*. Because of this, it is less surprising that they found someone with that name and some resemblance to “The” Satoshi Nakamoto. 0.05.
* “It was only while scouring a database that contained the registration cards of naturalized U.S. citizens that a Satoshi Nakamoto turned up whose profile and background offered a potential match.”—It’s possible from this sentence they were doing an unrelated search and just saw the name, but I doubt it.
Yet, no one has been on the moon in decades. Environmental circumstances cannot be ignored. You can’t go to the moon right now—maybe in some years, most likely not. “What can a twelfth-century peasant do to save themselves from annihilation? Nothing.”
How would you move Mount Fuji?
Take some time. Think about it.
Got an answer?
Good.
Throw it away.
You can’t move Mount Fuji.
Individual (or even social) benefit and reward do not necessarily follow from reproductive fitness; they could be utterly miserable but nonetheless have children* with the same beliefs.
*I am not certain how literally to interpret this from the quote.
Anime: Shin Sekai Yori is essentially several layers of unintended consequences placed into a puzzling world. It has three arcs following Saki Watanabe’s early life in a society with psychokinesis, lots of hidden rules, and somewhat questionable morality.
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A subtly wrong word ends up being very important.
Chicago will have more Thinking, Fast and Slow meetups on the 24th, Sept 7, and Sept 21.
Strongly agree, especially for “Flip” songs of the third game—“EXEC_FLIP_ARPHAGE./” “EXEC_COSMOFLIPS/.” and “EXEC_FLIP_FUSIONSPHERE/.” The startup for my desktop is a small bit of EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY/. For the most part, they are superbly dramatic.
A Hansonian might say that Madoka Magica is not about Madoka!
Three eps in is not really much; give it a bit more time.
I’ve personally found playing anime at 1.1x to be a difference which is barely even noticeable, but further speed increases to be somewhat annoying, and 1.5x+ to be unwatchable. It’s likely low-hanging fruit for many, but YMMV.
Magical Diary—it has puzzles, although they’re only a small part of the game. Ellen reminded me of Less Wrong fairly quickly; I later found out that TV Tropes lists her subplot as a shout-out to Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
Isn’t the point of the article that Boeing may not have actually done at least the first two steps (design cell not to fail, prevent failure of a cell from causing battery problems)?
I am confused.
There’s something to that, but it’s not as if Varian’s Microeconomic Analysis is going to have the cover of Spice and Wolf 1.
A small correction: The Society for Venturism has been around for quite a while, although I have a vague impression they’ve been more active in the last year than in the past. I had a look at their site to see when they were founded (1986), and noticed they’re currently raising funds for someone else, Aaron Winborn.
So… does that mean that Phil saw what he was expecting to in the reactions he got? ;)
I have mixed feelings about Casshern Sins, which I watched over the weekend. It has an excellent soundtrack, kind of neat figure-it-out plot, and a surreal dreamlike quality that reminds me (a lot!) of Squall’s Dead. That said, the resolution to the puzzles don’t really make any sense (it seems halfway plausible at the end that, in-universe, eating Casshern really would grant immortality—it’s certainly no stranger than the ruin being caused by nyy gur qrngu rfpncvat sebz Yhan jura fur jnf xvyyrq), and characters and perhaps the series over all are engure rkcyvpvgyl qrnguvfg, bs gur fvyyvrfg “qrngu tvirf zrnavat gb yvsr” glcr.
I was hoping the mode would be 2147483647 (my answer) to at least provide some humor, but 0 has it beat handily.
Tomorrow will most likely be the last Chicago meetup on a weekly basis; I’ve created a calendar for us on Meetup. The Google groups mailing list also remains active.
This has been rescheduled as the previous date didn’t work for some people.